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The politics of dancing

By The Blog Team

Loss for Maui Dance Advocates:

The LCwins again! In slightly less than one hour, Judge Joseph E. Cardoza dismissed the appeal by Maui Community College student Ramoda Anand and the Maui Dance Advocates of the Maui County Liquor Commission?s April 2006 decision not to change the county?s rules regarding dancing.

After listening to 40 minutes worth of arguments from Maui Dance Advocates attorney Lance Collins and Deputy Corporation Counsel Jane Lovell (representing the LC), Cardoza sided with Lovell?s argument that he had no jurisdiction to hear the case since the Liquor Commission?s hearing on dance rules wasn?t a ?contested case.? There was no basis for an appeal, Cardoza said, and that was that.

Full post as published by Supreme Court of Hawaii Blog (Unofficial) on December 06, 2007 (boomark / email).